International economics

As international financial markets have become more complex, so has the regulatory system which oversees them.

This ECLAC annual report sets out and analyses the main foreign direct investment (FDI) trends in the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean.

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The Asia-Pacific Trade and Investment Report (APTIR) is a major annual publication of the Trade, Investment and Innovation Division of United Nations ESCAP.

"e;China"e;, Napoleon once remarked, "e;is a sleeping lion.

Arab Society: A Compendium of Social Statistics is the latest in a series of biennial compendia of the Statistics Division of the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA).

Ensuring women’s economic empowerment and access to and control over resources requires an integrated approach to growth and development, focused on gender-responsive employment promotion and informed by the interdependency between economic and social development.

The 2016 edition of the Economic Report on Africa (ERA 2016) focuses on greening industrialization and highlights sustainable and people-centred industrialization.

This report looks at how technology and innovation achieves inclusive and sustainable industrial development (ISID).

The global economic recession and financial turmoil from Covid-19 are derailing implementation of the Addis Ababa Action Agenda and achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

This volume contains detailed tables showing international trade for 258 individual commodities and eleven world trade tables covering trade values and indices up to 2014.

Theories of Globalization offers students and scholars a comprehensive and critical introduction to the concept of globalization.

This is the United Nations definitive report on the state of the world economy, providing global and regional economic outlook for 2020 and 2021.

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This book is an in depth study of one of the most important agreements in the recent history of EU-developing world relations: the Lome convention - the principles upon which all relations between the states of the European union and ACP (African, Caribbean and Pacific) countries are based.

From the acclaimed author of Bernanke’s Test, “an essential title for any reader with investments or interest in financial instruments” (Library Journal).

Inequalities in human development are a roadblock to achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

The concealment of income, wealth and profits in tax havens has brought the topic of offshoring into public debate, but as John Urry shows in this important new book offshoring is a much more pervasive feature of contemporary societies.

International Trade: Theory and Policy provides engaging, balanced coverage of the key concepts and practical applications of the discipline.

This first edition of International Trade Outlook for Latin America and the Caribbean, which is the continuation of Latin America and the Caribbean in the World Economy with a new title, covers 2017 and contains three chapters.

This book describes the genesis of America's political and financial domination.

The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2018 provides an overview of progress towards achieving the 17 Sustainable Development Goals and is prepared by the Statistics Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs in cooperation with the United Nations system and based on current available data and information.

Ideological and cultural factors do not define or influence the way labor relations are conducted in China's workplace, as many suppose they do.

From the acclaimed author of Bernanke’s Test, “an essential title for any reader with investments or interest in financial instruments” (Library Journal).

This publication outlines the region’s economic performance in 2020 and analyses trends in the early months of 2021, as well as the outlook for the rest of the year.

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In its latest edition, the Foreign Direct Investment in Latin America and the Caribbean report analyzes in-depth the FDI received by the Caribbean, where these flows are much more significant than in the rest of the region as a proportion of Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

Globalization studies are rapidly filling many a library shelf, and understandably so.

On 25 September 2015, countries adopted a set of 17 goals to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure prosperity for all as part of a new sustainable development agenda to be achieved by 2030.

Inequality is not just about the size of our wallets.

The 2017 edition of the Economic Survey of Latin America and the Caribbean has three parts.

The Politics of Global Supply Chains analyses the changing politics of power and distribution within contemporary global supply chains.

Explores the IMF''s mandate over capital flows and analyses whether capital controls are consistent with international trade and investment agreements.

High-growth, high-return Africa is the most sought after frontier destination for global investment today.

Winner of the 2014 European Book Prize.

This publication is compiled to provide quality and timely statistical data for the monitoring, evaluation, analysis, research, and promotion of the intra-African trade.

In adopting the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, world leaders committed themselves to leaving no one behind in pursuit of the eradication of extreme poverty and protection of the planet.

Many of the problems that lie at the heart of the current financial crisis stem from a significant but little-known development that occurred in the early 1980s: investors changed their investment criteria.

This publication provides detailed industrial data of Arab countries for policy-makers, analysts and researchers.

'An interesting and important account.

This publication provides detailed industrial data of Arab countries for policy-makers, analysts and researchers.

This edition of International Trade Outlook for Latin America and the Caribbean covers 2021 reviews the recent performance of global and regional trade following the crisis caused by the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic.

Development is a transformational process, combining a series of interactive and cumulative linkages to create a virtuous circle of enhanced resource mobilization, higher incomes, expanding markets and investment, leading to more and better jobs.

For more than a century, the United States has been the world's most powerful state.

This publication sets out and analyses the main foreign direct investment (FDI) trends in the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean.